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See more synonyms for hashing on Thesaurus.com Radio interference of signals between two stations on the same or adjacent frequencies. Computers a technique for locating data in a file by applying a transformation, usually arithmetic, to a key. Show More
a dish of diced or chopped meat and often vegetables, as of leftover corned beef or veal and potatoes, sautéed in a frying pan or of meat, potatoes, and carrots cooked together in gravy. a mess, jumble, or muddle: a hash of unorganized facts and figures. a reworking of old and familiar material: This essay is a hash of several earlier and better works. Computers garbage(def 7) . Radio and Television Slang electrical noise on a radio or snow in a television picture caused by interfering outside sources that generate sparking. Show More
to chop into small pieces; make into hash; mince. to muddle or mess up: We thought we knew our parts, but when the play began we hashed the whole thing. to discuss or review (something) thoroughly (often followed by out ): They hashed out every aspect of the issue. Show More
hash over , to bring up again for consideration; discuss, especially in review: At the class reunion they hashed over their college days. Show More
make a hash of , to spoil or botch: The new writer made a hash of his first assignment. settle someone's hash , Informal to get rid of; subdue: Her blunt reply really settled my hash. Show More
Origin of hash 1 1645–55; <
French hacher to cut up, derivative of
hache ax,
hatchet Related forms un·hashed , adjective Dictionary.com Unabridged
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Related Words for hashing contend ,
squabble ,
disagree ,
quibble ,
dispute ,
quarrel ,
disfigure ,
wreck ,
lacerate ,
bruise ,
distort ,
impair ,
contort ,
hack ,
maim ,
maul ,
chew ,
scrunch ,
squish ,
grind Examples from the Web for hashing Contemporary Examples of hashing Historical Examples of hashing Here there is a troop of cooks, their garments girded like soldiers for the battle, hashing and steaming.
Besides this, there was nothing new; merely a hashing up of the two great trials at Aix and Loudun.
"Verehas we hare honly servants of the ke veen;" suggested No. 2, hashing his mistress's English.
It's very easy for you to say hash it; but I know what a joint loses in hashing : it's a day's dinner the less, if it's a bit.
But you can see how my telling her would—oh well there isn't much percentage in hashing it over.
British Dictionary definitions for hashing a dish of diced cooked meat, vegetables, etc, reheated in a sauce something mixed up a reuse or rework of old material make a hash of informal to mix or mess up to defeat or destroy settle someone's hash or fix someone's hash informal to subdue or silence someone Show More
to chop into small pieces to mix or mess up Show More
Word Origin for hash C17: from Old French hacher to chop up, from hache hatchet
the character (#) used to precede a number this sign used in printing or writing to indicate that a space should be inserted Show More
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Word Origin and History for hashing n.1 "a stew," 1660s, from hash (v.). Meaning "a mix, a mess" is from 1735.
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v. 1650s, "to hack, chop into small pieces," from French hacher "chop up," from Old French hache "ax" (see hatchet ). Hash browns is short for hash browned potatoes (1917), with the -ed omitted, as in mash potatoes . The hash marks on a football field were so called 1960s, from similarity to hash marks , armed forces slang for "service stripes on the sleeve of a military uniform" (1909), which supposedly were called that because they mark the number of years one has had free food (hash (n.1)) from the Army; but perhaps there is a connection with the noun form of hatch (v.2).
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Idioms and Phrases with hashing In addition to the idiom beginning with hash
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make a hash of settle someone's hash sling hash Show More
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